Transport committee  I'd like to add that Air Canada's current practice, if I understood correctly, is that musicians will be allowed to pre-board. I think that we have all seen many things put into overhead compartments that could easily be put under seats. It's a question of balance. When you're talking about something so extremely valuable that even putting it in a pressurized cabin, like animals....

Transport committee  I just wanted to say that if people who own large instruments know in advance that they will not be able to transport their instrument, they can purchase, for some instruments, a kind of case that will let them check the instrument. If you've been told that you can carry your instrument on board, and then you don't have that case with you, that's when an instrument can be damaged.